Circuit-controlling device



April 3, 1928. 1,664,697

H. s. MlCKS CIRCUIT CONTROLLING DEVICE Filed Feb. 16, 1927 ATTO R N EV UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HENRY S. HICKS, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

CIBCUIT-CON'IROLLIN G DEVICE.

Application filed February 16, 1927. Serial No. 168,657.

This invention relates to certain novel imrovements in circuit controlhng devices and has for its principal object the provision of an improved construction of this character which will be highly eflicient in use and economical in manufacture.

The invention has for one of its salient objects the provision o f an automatic controlling device which is incorporated in lighting circuits whereby electric lights remote from the controlling device will be automatically thrown into and fro of electrical ener Other objects Wlll m circuit with a source appear hereinafter.

The invention consists in the novel combination and arrangement of parts to be here inafter described and claimed.

The invention will be best understood by reference to the accompanying draw ng, showing the preferred form of construction,

and in which:

Fig. 1 is a back view of an ordinary alarm clock showing the invention associated therewith,

Fig. 2 is a side elevational view of the same.

In the drawing,

10 indicates an alarm 17 clock of the ordinary construction including the alarm hammer this alarm clock I device. socket switch 11 operating shaft. With associate my controlling The controlling device includes a of the pull chain type.

This socket switch is connected to the back 11' of the alarm clock as at 12.

terior end portion of The exthe alarm hammer shaft 12 has formed thereon a finger 13 provided with an open slot 14. The chain 15 of the socket switch is detachably connected to the finger 13 as at 16. Mounted in the socket 11 in one instance, is a fuse 17 of any approved construction. The socket switch is diagrammatically indicated in the switch is connected of electrical energy 18 of a conductor 19. socket switch is conn Fig. 4 and one side of to one side of a source through the medium The other side of the ected in circuit with the lighting elements 20 through the medium of conductors 12, said lighting elements being remotely disposed from the controlling device. The other side of the lighting elements and the source of electrical energy is grounded as at 22.

In use, when it is desired to throw the li hting elements 20 in circuit with the source ofielectrical energy 18, the alarm of the clock 10 is set at the time when said circuit is to be completed through the medium of the alarm set button 23. When the mechanism of the clock, at the time set by the alarm button 23, is active the shaft 12 which rotates the alarm hammer will rotate and this rotation will exert pull on the chain 15 whereby to operate the socket switch to close the circuit between the lighting elements 20 and source of electrical energy To open the circuit between the lighting elements 20 and source of electrical energy 18 the operation is substantially the same, it being pointed out that the time when the switch is to be operated is controlled by setting the alarm mechanism of the alarm clock at a articular time when it is desired to open or c ose the switch at a predetermined time.

In Fig. 3 the structure illustrated is substantially similar to the structure illustrated in Fig. 2 with the exception that an indicaing light 17 has been substituted for the fuse Otherwise the operation is substantially the same,

By use of a controlling device as herein described it will be apparent that lighting elements arranged in different buildings or lighting elements arranged in the same building remote from each other can be automatically thrown into and out of circuit with their source of electrical energy.

I have not illustrated the specific structure of the socket switch because it is to be borne in mind that any approved type of socket switch may be used which includes a pull chain.

While I have illustrated and described the preferred form of construction for carrying my invention into effect, this is capable of variation and modification without departing from the spirit of the invention. I, therefore, do not wish to be limited to the heen set forth, What Letters erating shaft of an switch mounted on alarm clock, a socket 10' the back of the alarm d clock and including a pull chain, and a finger formed on the shaft and having a notch formed therein adapted end portion of the pull chain to the shaft.

connecting the pull In testimony Wher to receive the outer chain for operatively 15 eof I aflix my signature.

HENRY S. MICKS. 

